Chapter 192: Starting with a workbench!
"Your sense of humor is even higher than mine." After a moment of silence, No. 42 spoke slowly, his tone full of distrust.
Come to think of it.
Not to mention the record of 48 million times that even the world's number one cannot challenge.
Just taking any random challenge, none of the 48 million ordinary people could succeed. Then someone came and said that not only could he succeed, but he could also increase the difficulty a hundred times and succeed brilliantly.
Not being called a Shar-Pei is considered a sign of kindness from others.
No. 42 was obviously very kind, because after a moment of surprise, his tone became a little like coaxing a child.
"A, my friend, you are really awesome... I'm sorry I couldn't help myself, but I promise that this kind of mockery of the savior will never happen again. I should give you more courage now. Come on, you must be the strongest player I have ever seen!"
Ignoring No. 42's efforts to hold back his laughter, Xu Mu quickly took action.
He raised his leg and walked straight forward to a square tree, and started playing without saying a word.
Anyone who has played MC for a while should have heard this sentence.
If you want to be rich, start by picking trees.
As a major consumable material in MC, trees are very versatile.
Building houses, making wooden weapons, making torches, charcoal, making doors, making fences, etc. all require a large amount of wood.
Of course, it has a more critical use.
Craft a workbench.
The workbench can be said to be the most core gameplay in Minecraft.
In this world where everything is in its most primitive form, players can make almost any props they want.
The player will initially carry a small workbench with a space capacity of only four 2*2 square grids, which can only perform some of the simplest wood and stone processing.
If you want to be more advanced, you need to use a workbench.
The space capacity of the workbench has been expanded to a 3*3 grid.
Players can use their imagination to place the corresponding initial materials in the nine grids and then make corresponding props.
Xu Mu’s first step was naturally to make the crucial workbench.
Unlike in the original game, pulling down trees by hand in the dungeon world is slower and takes longer.
It takes about 20 pulls with bare hands to knock a log off a tree.
After picking it up, Xu Mu quickly opened his own small workbench and disassembled the log into four pieces of wood.
Then place wooden blocks in all four grids of the small workbench.
A new pattern block pops up in the finished product prompt box on the right.
It was a dark brown block with spots, but because the pixels were too blurry, Xu Mu couldn't see clearly what the workbench looked like even in the copy world.
After confirming the production, just take out the workbench and place it on the ground.
"Huh?" No. 42 exclaimed in surprise.
He looked at the timing panel.
Only 19 seconds passed from the time Xu Mu started to move to the time the workbench landed.
Among the more than 48 million dungeon records before this, the fastest player took nearly 5 minutes to figure out how to make the workbench.
Although the workbench is not difficult to make, you can get the finished product by disassembling a log into 4 wooden blocks and then filling the temporary workbench with all 4 wooden blocks.
But the problem is.
How did he know...
In No. 42’s own statistical database.
Without any prompts, in the first 48 million dungeon challenge records, about 70% of the players discovered the panel of the built-in small workbench for the first time half an hour after the start of the game.
Among the players who have found the workbench, only 28.3% of them realized that this thing could help them survive better in this world after opening the small workbench for the first time.
In the end, only 0.96% of the players will drop a finished workbench after opening the small workbench for the second time.
And these players were all the world's number one at different times.
If it were any other ordinary player, they might not be able to finish a workbench in a whole day.
But what about Xu Mu?
Xu Mu started by chopping down a tree, then opened the small workbench and made the finished product in one go.
It was as if there was a correct answer right in front of him...
"Your talent seems a little unexpected." No. 42's tone was not as frivolous as before.
Originally, in His view.
Xu Mu is just one of the 48 million players who have reached the top, just like the other world's number one players.
But now the workbench was completed in just 19 seconds, which made No. 42 see something different.
"However, it's too early to say this now. It is still impossible to find the Ender Dragon and defeat it within an hour." No. 42 thought.
He also didn't know what the final answer to this copy was, because he had never witnessed any player achieve super stealth achievements.
But He had seen countless records of regular clearances.
In those clearance records, the props needed to defeat the Ender Dragon are very complicated if you take out just one of them.
If I had to use an analogy, it's like building a computer from scratch.
But the parts, chips and even screws inside the computer all need to be made and are not ready-made.
The demand for each material is quite high.
Therefore, it is necessary to start assembling a series of machines that can produce screws, parts, and chips.
Even though Xu Mu can make a workbench in 19 seconds, his total progress is only to make a screw on the machine for making accessories.
It's still a long, long way off.
Xu Mu had no idea what kind of psychological shock No. 42 had just gone through.
The moment he put down the workbench, he began to race against time and concentrate on making a new round of tools.
There are monster settings in MC.
Since there are monsters, players naturally have matching weapons and tools.
The tools with the worst properties are those made of wood.
Next comes stone products, then copper, then iron, and finally the ultimate weapon made from the diamond series.
Of course, if you want to defeat the Ender Dragon more stably, it is best to enchant the diamond products.
But these are useless to Xu Mu, he only needs the most primitive tools.
I got up again and went to chop trees. After collecting about three or four logs, I processed them into blocks and sticks.
Then, place the two wooden sticks in the lower two squares of the center of the nine-square grid.
Place the three wooden blocks towards the upper left corner of the grid.
The finished product prompt box on the right shows an [axe] pattern.
After confirming the production, Xu Mu successfully obtained his first wooden axe.
Then, Xu Mu did the same thing, placing two wooden sticks at the bottom and a wooden block on the top.
[Congratulations on synthesizing the item: Wooden Shovel! ]
Then place the sticks and blocks in a T shape on the workbench.
[Congratulations on synthesizing the item: Wooden Pickaxe! ]
Of course, if the player starts the game normally, more tools will be needed.
But for Xu Mu, these three weapons are enough.
He switched out the wooden axe from his inventory and quickly walked to another tree.
Start cutting!
Although it is a wooden axe, the sharpened axe blade is much better than an angular square hand.
The efficiency of felling has also been greatly reduced from more than 20 times of felling by hand at the beginning to only 10 times to remove a log.
Efficiency has more than doubled!
After chopping for five minutes, Xu Mu finally stopped when he had collected dozens of logs in his backpack.
No. 42, who continued to watch, gradually calmed down from the initial surprise.
Because He discovered that what Xu Mu was doing was not much different from what other players who entered this copy were doing.
The first thing they did after obtaining the tool of axe was to cut down trees and then began to try to use the wood to build houses for themselves.
Human beings are too obsessed with houses.
"Presumably, this kid is also preparing to build a house. Judging from his movements, he seems to want to build a big house? The time he spends collecting wood even exceeds that of 67% of the players in the same period." No. 42 thought.
According to the records, 67% of the players only chopped for a few minutes to two minutes, collected a dozen pieces of wood, and then were attracted by other animals not far away, and then started hunting for food.
This kid is diligent .
Unfortunately, He couldn't remind Xu Mu.
Otherwise, No. 42 would definitely let Xu Mu build a house the size of a matchbox, just enough for him to live in.
After all, in the setting of this copy, as long as the player can lock himself in a completely enclosed area and close the door, he will not be invaded by monsters.
It has nothing to do with the size of the house.
“However, if he needs my reminder to find a more convenient method, it means he is not a qualified savior.” No. 42 thought to himself.
But the next moment, Xu Mu's action surprised No. 42.
After collecting dozens of logs, he did not start building the house.
Instead, he switched tools, holding the newly made wooden pickaxe, and started digging deep into the ground!
Dig down!
The reason why MC has been popular for a long time and remains popular is that it has a high degree of freedom.
Players can not only move on the ground, but they can even use the tools in their hands to dig into the soil beneath their feet at any location.
What's more, the underground world is as rich as the surface world!
There are many precious materials that can only be obtained in the underground world.
"Stop! You idiot! If you dare to go to the underground world in this poor man's clothes, you are simply going to die!" No. 42 roared in his heart, but unfortunately he couldn't say it out loud.
He finally discovered it.
This brat is good at torturing the audience.
Before this, no matter how chaotic other players were, they were limited to the ground.
Well, the fact is, judging from previous records.
As many as 100% of the people did not try to dig underground within the first half hour.
This guy, he hasn't even gathered all his equipment yet, but he started digging underground within 5 minutes of the start of the game.
Although MC is a survival game, the daytime is the time for players to build and develop, and there are no monsters.
At night, monsters will emerge from various holes that lead directly to the surface and attack the player.
This is limited to the surface.
Underground, it is dark and all kinds of monsters exist in every corner .
And something scarier than monsters—the abyss.
The underground is not entirely made of rock, but there is a probability that there will be large caves.
If there is a hole under the place where the player is standing at this time, once it is dug out, the whole person will fall directly and die.
“According to records, about 0.013% of players died from falling while digging holes. I hope you won’t be one of them.” No. 42 thought.
But soon, He discovered the difference between Xu Mu and other players.
When it is time for other players to explore the underground world, they will just take a shovel and dig straight down.
They were unaware of the danger until they fell.
But Xu Mu’s excavation method is different.
He never dug the stone directly beneath which he stood.
Instead, dig downwards in a step-like manner towards the front.
Dig out the next square, go down again, and then continue exploring forward.
In this way, a hollow hole can be dug out.
Others are still standing on the rock on the previous step, and there is no way that it would be suddenly hollowed out and fall down.
"This kid is quite smart..." No. 42 was left in tears and amused by Xu Mu.
You say he is a coward, but he is actually very reckless.
Start digging the ground within five minutes of the start.
You say he is reckless, but when he digs deeper, he will also dig steps for himself and take every step carefully.
After a while, Xu Mu really dug out a hole.
He continued digging to the side for a while and found a higher location to land.
Not far ahead, there was a lighting torch embedded in the wall, which illuminated the dark cave with some light.
"Let me see... This torch should have been left by player No. 21786319." This was not a secret, and it did not have much impact on the completion of the dungeon. No. 42 said, "It's a pity that he failed to complete the dungeon in the end and died at the hands of the Ender Dragon."
"Then I will observe a second of silence for him." Xu Mu said casually, and walked straight to the wall to take down the torch.
"However, this player seems to be a very beautiful girl. So beautiful that I still have some impression of her."
"Then let's observe one more second of silence." Xu Mu held the torch low and searched the walls in all directions.
"What are you looking for?" No. 42 was very interested in Xu Mu's every unexpected move.
"Looking for iron ore."
"You actually know about iron ore?" No. 42 asked in surprise.
"You seem to like talking nonsense. There are many survival dungeons, and the presentation methods are relatively uniform. It is no longer a secret that iron ore can be used to make tools. Players who have just become adults and entered the dungeon know it." Xu Mu showed a look of contempt.
"Well, this is the first time I've been scolded by a player. It's quite fresh." No. 42 laughed, and then said, "Aren't you afraid of encountering monsters? You come here unarmed. In this dark terrain, you can't run away if you suddenly encounter one."
"Then kill them all." Xu Mu didn't care.
The difficulty of MC monsters is not too high.
Moreover, he knew every monster's attack method by heart, so he was not afraid at all.
“You’re quite confident.” No. 42 said happily.
Fortunately, there were no monsters in this cave, which saved Xu Mu a lot of time.
Two minutes later, No. 42 gave a warm reminder.
"My friend, I have to remind you that you have wasted 10 minutes of your life. So far, you haven't made anything... I mean, after making a workbench and tools, you haven't made any progress. Judging from the progress, you have been surpassed by 89% of the players. And you have 5 minutes left before you fail the challenge... Hey kid! Did you miss something?"
No. 42's voice suddenly cut off.
Because he saw Xu Mu holding a torch and blatantly ignoring a pile of cubes of ore dotted with sky blue that passed by him.
Diamond mine!
It is top-grade material in MC.
The tools made are very useful. It only takes one stroke to make an axe to chop a tree, and one stroke to make a pickaxe to mine! It greatly improves the collection efficiency.
Making it into protective gear is like having an extra life. You won't lose blood even if you encounter low-level monsters or get hit.
It can be said to be the most powerful material that is omnipotent and invincible!
I didn’t expect this kid to be so lucky that he encountered a wild diamond mine the first time he went underground.
If you miss this, you will lose 100 million.
Number 42 had to give him a little help.
But Xu Mu's next sentence left No. 42 speechless for a moment.
"Rubbish, don't want it." Xu Mu held the torch and continued to go deeper into the ground without looking back.
No. 42: “…”
The book uses the speed pass method before version 1.8, and the props and equipment are all from versions before 1.8 (because the player base before this version should be the largest, and it is also the version that old players are most familiar with. Later, after MC was sold to Microsoft and NetEase developed a pirated mobile game, the popularity dropped a lot)
Therefore, the two-minute speedrun that can only be achieved in subsequent versions is not shown in the book. This kind of TAS racing is too fast and requires a series of preparations such as seeds, memorizing the board (memorizing the map), etc., which makes it lose the meaning of display and is purely for the sake of speed.
